Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Martelli


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was keep. Friday (talk) 15:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex Martelli
Not notable. -Kmaguir1 20:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep. Nomination based on bad faith by nominator, who does so only to "get even" at article creator (me, more or less, after copyvio fix).  Martelli is author of two widely selling programming books (greatly past the 5000 reader threshhold of the "author test"), has 22 Google scholar cites, and 312k general "Google test" hits.   LotLE × talk  20:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep&mdash; In the interest of full disclosure I'd previously found a PROD on the article and deleted it with the comment "PROD Removed - Easy to establish notability via Google - And not on Wiki:AfD yet." Now that it is on AfD, let me summarize my thoughts. Notability is always contentious, and notability (people) is not Wikipedia policy so we have no absolute standard. However it is reasonable to accept its stated position that these criteria are a fair test of whether a person has sufficient external notice to ensure that they can be covered from a neutral point of view based on verifiable information from reliable sources, without straying into original research. My previous opinion holds. If the bad faith assertion LotLE makes is valid, that's unfortunate&mdash; I’d prefer to take this on face value as a challenge to notability&mdash; on simple notability Alex Martelli warrants space on Wikipedia. And yes, my arguments for today are getting a little redundant; probably time to go to bed... Williamborg (Bill) 20:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * We'll see what the community thinks. -Kmaguir1 21:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep, author of multiple published works that are well reviewed by independent resources. Recognized in his subject matter.  Seems to meet WP:BIO; all of this seems to be covered in the article, though, so I assume there is more to this?  Was the counterpoint ever articulated?   Kuru  talk  21:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - certainly notable, author of mutliple books published by a reputable publisher. -- Whpq 21:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. per arguments by constructive editors.--Anthony Krupp 21:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Published by O'Reilly. I trust their judgement wrt notability Kim Bruning 22:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. - User:Samsara (talk • contribs) 08:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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